Paradise Is Burning

Name: Paradise Is Burning
Genre: Drama
Released: August 23, 2024
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 68

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Room 8 Films | Release Date: August 23, 2024 | Not Rated

Summary: In a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), get by on their own, left to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree, vivacious and anarchic. But when social services call a meeting, Laura has to find someone to impersonate their mom, orIn a working-class area of Sweden, sisters Laura (16), Mira (12) and Steffi (7), get by on their own, left to their own devices by an absent mother. With summer on the way and no parents around, life is wild and carefree, vivacious and anarchic. But when social services call a meeting, Laura has to find someone to impersonate their mom, or the girls will be taken into foster care and separated. Laura keeps the threat a secret, so as not to worry her younger sisters.… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 108 min

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Collider Jeff Ewing

Aug 27, 2024

The film captures the reality of an abundantly free, but unguarded childhood well, and the resultant dreamlike quality of certain scenes is thoroughly engaging. It's absolutely a journey to watch. Read full review

The Guardian Leslie Felperin

Aug 27, 2024

Like an unusually designed coat featuring quirky details and an interesting fabric choice from a young designer’s first collection, Swedish writer-director Mika Gustafson’s feature debut has raw edges and some sloppy stitching in places, but the whole is fresh, directional and beautifully cut. Read full review

Grace Dodd

Sep 4, 2024

Chaotic and intimate, Gustafson captures the balancing act of sisterhood which at once encompasses brutality and tenderness. Read full review

Ethan Padgett

Sep 11, 2024

Gustafson gets great performances from her leads, yet the main storyline is not given a succinct resolution. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Aug 29, 2024

Though immaculately made in every respect, Paradise Is Burning never quite finds its narrative rhythms. The story is happily fussing over here and then gets distracted by something over there. But Sine Vadstrup Brooker’s lovely cinematography, drifting in the liminal spaces between city and country, keeps the viewer uneasily gripped throughout. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Sep 1, 2024

Not everything works in Mika Gustafson’s feature debut, but the performances, in particular that of the magnetic Delbravo, have an unpredictable, wayward energy. And the restless, hungry gaze of the camera captures the savage love and joyous freedom that unites the girls. Read full review

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